Since my entire daily routine has been up-ended and I am now buying all my liquor from my local shop via credit card, I thought it might be fun to gauge how I've been shopping compared to normal:

4/21 $192.65
5/06 $212.07
5/15 $151.27
5/25 $132.78

So, cash-wise it's a touch more than usual, but that doesn't account for a change in brands and supplying my GF with wine. I'd say we have a MINOR CORRELATION between "being locked in a tiny fucking apartment since March 9th" and "drinking more and earlier everyday."

Also, I've learned that Amsterdam gin and Tang make a really effective cocktail.

SCIENCE!

Since my entire daily routine has been up-ended and I am now buying all my liquor from my local shop via credit card, I thought it might be fun to gauge how I've been shopping compared to normal:

4/21 $192.655/06 $212.075/15 $151.275/25 $132.78

So, cash-wise it's a touch more than usual, but that doesn't account for a change in brands and supplying my GF with wine. I'd say we have a MINOR CORRELATION between "being locked in a tiny fucking apartment since March 9th" and "drinking more and earlier everyday."

Also, I've learned that Amsterdam gin and Tang make a really effective cocktail.

Liquor is like a happiness credit card. You can have lots of happiness all at once, but you have to paying it all back in depression, with a ton of interest. And eventually you owe a lot more than you can ever pay back.

That's good advice. I'll have a drink or two to wind down before bed and I'm pretty lit. Most days I don't have anything because I don't want to invest the time to nurse one down. I don't see alcoholism anytime in my future.

[quote=Finsternis post_id=109959 time=1591149398 user_id=149]Liquor is like a happiness credit card. You can have lots of happiness all at once, but you have to paying it all back in depression, with a ton of interest. And eventually you owe a lot more than you can ever pay back.[/quote]

That's good advice. I'll have a drink or two to wind down before bed and I'm pretty lit. Most days I don't have anything because I don't want to invest the time to nurse one down. I don't see alcoholism anytime in my future.

That's the nice thing about alcohol I'm discovering, that it won't take you for bad to good but it will take you from bad to better or good to even better. It's like a bottle of magic.

Liquor is like a happiness credit card. You can have lots of happiness all at once, but you have to paying it all back in depression, with a ton of interest. And eventually you owe a lot more than you can ever pay back.

[quote="Billy Mays" post_id=109553 time=1590386184 user_id=1042]That's the nice thing about alcohol I'm discovering, that it won't take you for bad to good but it will take you from bad to better or good to even better. It's like a bottle of magic.[/quote]

Liquor is like a happiness credit card. You can have lots of happiness all at once, but you have to paying it all back in depression, with a ton of interest. And eventually you owe a lot more than you can ever pay back.

Now returning to being on topic, since South Africa has banned sales of alcohol during the lockdown, people are making their own. A local beer is common, but the number one (alcoholic) beverage people are making is moonshine, according to MSN News. Confirmed by this story from Reuters: South Africans quench thirst with moonshine during lockdown ban.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A craze for homebrewing has swept across South Africa since the government banned the sale of alcohol to help hospitals and keep order during the coronavirus lockdown - good news for Frank van Wensveen, who owns a home beer brewing supply shop.

South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption per capita in the world, imposed a lockdown on March 27 and banned alcohol in a bid to ease hospital workloads, help the public stick to social distancing rules and prevent a rise in domestic violence.

Now returning to being on topic, since South Africa has banned sales of alcohol during the lockdown, people are making their own. A local beer is common, but the number one (alcoholic) beverage people are making is moonshine, according to MSN News. Confirmed by this story from Reuters: [url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-alcohol/south-africans-quench-thirst-with-moonshine-during-lockdown-ban-idUSKBN2351OL]South Africans quench thirst with moonshine during lockdown ban[/url].

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A craze for homebrewing has swept across South Africa since the government banned the sale of alcohol to help hospitals and keep order during the coronavirus lockdown - good news for Frank van Wensveen, who owns a home beer brewing supply shop.

South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption per capita in the world, imposed a lockdown on March 27 and banned alcohol in a bid to ease hospital workloads, help the public stick to social distancing rules and prevent a rise in domestic violence.

And I just realized the new signs they can put on oxygen tanks: "Dehydrated water."

Edit: And I just realized that joke doesn't work. Water is H2O1. Oxygen is O2. It would have to be H2O2 for the joke to work, and H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide.

Yes! Good one, Ha Ha!

Or...how about they label oxygen tanks as "laughing gas" so when someone points out it's O2 and not N20 you can say "It's pretty hard to laugh without that gas!"

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=109879 time=1590962984 user_id=829][quote=Flack post_id=109864 time=1590941934 user_id=840]Today for lunch I'm having water with a side of water.[/quote]And I just realized the new signs they can put on oxygen tanks: "Dehydrated water."

Edit: And I just realized that joke doesn't work. Water is H2O1. Oxygen is O2. It would have to be H2O2 for the joke to work, and H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide.[/quote]

Yes! Good one, Ha Ha!

Or...how about they label oxygen tanks as "laughing gas" so when someone points out it's O2 and not N20 you can say "It's pretty hard to laugh without that gas!"

And I just realized the new signs they can put on oxygen tanks: "Dehydrated water."

Edit: And I just realized that joke doesn't work. Water is H2O1. Oxygen is O2. It would have to be H2O2 for the joke to work, and H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide.

[quote=Flack post_id=109864 time=1590941934 user_id=840]Today for lunch I'm having water with a side of water.[/quote]And I just realized the new signs they can put on oxygen tanks: "Dehydrated water."

Edit: And I just realized that joke doesn't work. Water is H2O1. Oxygen is O2. It would have to be H2O2 for the joke to work, and H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide.

Last night the Nasty Pirates came over and we finally broke open the Rumtopf, the concoction I've been brewing for over a year now. The ingredients were two or three bottles of Captain Morgan's spiced rum with six pounds of fruit and three pounds of sugar added. We drank the alcohol over ice, and ate the fruit over angel food cake. Everyone left with damaged livers and diabetic-level glucose levels, so mission accomplished.

Today for lunch I'm having water with a side of water.

Last night the Nasty Pirates came over and we finally broke open the Rumtopf, the concoction I've been brewing for over a year now. The ingredients were two or three bottles of Captain Morgan's spiced rum with six pounds of fruit and three pounds of sugar added. We drank the alcohol over ice, and ate the fruit over angel food cake. Everyone left with damaged livers and diabetic-level glucose levels, so mission accomplished.

That's the nice thing about alcohol I'm discovering, that it won't take you for bad to good but it will take you from bad to better or good to even better. It's like a bottle of magic.

Ahh, spoken like a true alcoholic.

Again, no.

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=109580 time=1590423146 user_id=829][quote="Billy Mays" post_id=109553 time=1590386184 user_id=1042] I made a donkey purchase at the liquor store this weekend... [/quote]Ahh, so you made an [i]ass[/i] of youirself?[/quote]

No.

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=109580 time=1590423146 user_id=829][quote="Billy Mays" post_id=109553 time=1590386184 user_id=1042]That's the nice thing about alcohol I'm discovering, that it won't take you for bad to good but it will take you from bad to better or good to even better. It's like a bottle of magic.[/quote]Ahh, spoken like a true alcoholic.[/quote]

That's the nice thing about alcohol I'm discovering, that it won't take you for bad to good but it will take you from bad to better or good to even better. It's like a bottle of magic.

Ahh, spoken like a true alcoholic.

[quote="Billy Mays" post_id=109553 time=1590386184 user_id=1042] I made a donkey purchase at the liquor store this weekend... [/quote]Ahh, so you made an [i]ass[/i] of youirself?[quote="Billy Mays" post_id=109553 time=1590386184 user_id=1042]That's the nice thing about alcohol I'm discovering, that it won't take you for bad to good but it will take you from bad to better or good to even better. It's like a bottle of magic.[/quote]Ahh, spoken like a true alcoholic.